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The Princess, The Knight, And The Dragon By Malarkey Poetry Analysis - 358 words
"The Princess, the Knight, and the Dragon" by
Malarkey - Poetry Analysis The human institutions
of nobility and dignity are often criticized by
satirists. These satirists see these as arbitrary
rules that man has placed on himself that do not
help, and may even hurt them, in the long run.
This point is capitalized upon by Stoddard
Malarkey in his poem "The Princess, the Knight,
and the Dragon". In the poem Malarkey's opinions
can clearly be seen through the examples of the
characters Princess Miranda, the maid, and the
knight. The character of Princess Miranda is the
obvious representative of ideas of dignity and
nobility. She, fully aware of her own danger, does
what the code of nobility th ...
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Two Warriors: A Comparison And Contrast Of Beowulf And The Knight From The Canterbury Tales - 591 words
Two Warriors: A Comparison And Contrast Of Beowulf
And The Knight From The Canterbury Tales The
Canterbury Tales Character Knight Beowulf Quest -
fights religious wars - fights for god - fights
for the good of others - kills evil things -
fights in order to have bragging right - fights
for the good of others Societys View - most
admired person of all the tales - seen as a hero -
seen as boastful and overconfident - seen as a
hero Religious Beliefs - believes in God - goes to
church in his torn war clothes - believes in God
and pagan gods - it is never mentioned of him
going to church **Compare and/or contrast the
Knight to Beowulf** All throughout literature
there are characters that can be ...
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16th Century Poetry - 1,273 words
16Th Century Poetry Part I: 1. Name three of the
Germanic tribes that brought to England the
dialects that make up the basis of the language we
now call Old English. The Germanic tribes that
brought the dialects were the Angles, the Saxons,
and the Jutes. 2. Give an example from Beowulf of
three of the following poetic devices:
alliteration, the kenning, variation (repetition
of appositives), or the litote (understatement).
There are several examples of alliteration in
lines 3079-3084, "Nothing we advised could ever
convince the prince we loved, our land's guardian,
not to vex the custodian of the gold, let him lie
where he was long accustomed, lurk there under
earth until the end of the wor ...
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A Comparsion Between Modern Day Soilders And Medieval Knights - 448 words
A Comparsion Between Modern Day Soilders And
Medieval Knights In Medieval Times, A Knight was a
mounted man-at-arms of medieval Europe. He served
a king or other feudal superior, usually in return
for the tenure of a tract of land, but sometimes
he served his lord for money. The knight was
generally a man of noble birth who had served in
the lower ranks as page and squire before being
ceremoniously inducted into knighthood by his
superior. At his induction the knight usually
swore to be brave, loyal, and courteous and to
protect the defenseless. After the 15th century,
knighthood was conferred on civilians as a reward
for public services. A knight in armor would
present a very strange appear ...
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Affirmative Action - 1,487 words
... f Prop. 209 permits gender discrimination that
is "reasonably necessary" to the "normal
operation" of public education, employment and
contracting. In 1998, The ban on use of
affirmative action in admissions at the University
of California went into effect. UC Berkeley had a
61% drop in admissions, and UCLA had a 36%
decline. This decline strengthens the position of
the Pro side of affirmative action. However, a
contingency plan has been established. According
to a source (who asked to remain nameless), UC
Berkeley has a program to actively recruit more
minority students that falls out of the guidelines
established by prop. 209. These types of "loop
holes" can ultimately hurt the various ...
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Analysis Of Wife Of Bath - 1,176 words
Analysis of Wife of Bath Analysis of Wife of Bath
Geoffrey Chaucer was charged with rape by a woman
named Cecily Chaumpaigne around the year 1380. It
is most likely that a distinguishable character,
such as Chaucer would not have been guilty of this
charge. However, the word "rape" probably referred
to kidnapping rather than assaulting a woman as it
means today. Cecily Chaumpaigne in 1380 released
Chaucer of all charges of "raptu meo," a phrase
that could be interpreted as "seizing me". It is
possible that this allegation of rape brought on
to Chaucer by Cecily Chaumpaigne, is the very
reason behind the Tale of the Wife of Bath. The
wife of Bath is a tough woman with a mind of her
own and sh ...
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Becoming A Knight - 1,103 words
Becoming a Knight During the middle ages, in order
to become a knight one had to go through many
years of training. A knight-to-be spent at least
fourteen years of his life learning the proper
conduct and etiquette of knighthood. Once the
years of training were completed, often an
elaborate ceremony took place when the gentleman
was knighted. Once knighted, the man had to live
by the code of chivalry. This code had the basic
guidelines of a knight's behavior. This code was
so respected that abiding by it brought honor and
respect from others. The education of a knight
began at the age of seven. This was when a boy was
taken from his home and sent to the castle of a
famous noble, perhaps his ...
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Becoming A Knight - 1,127 words
... g knight had to either join one of the great
military orders, such as the Knights Templars, or
hire out to a richer noble as a member of his
private army. As a man-at-arms, he could always
hope to make his fortune by getting his share of
the profit, that was sometimes won in battle. He
could also hope to get money by capturing a rich
noble in combat and holding him in for ransom. It
is obvious that knighthood was not easy for those
who were not secure financially, and those who did
not have a desire to protect the weak, aid the
poor, seek justice, or honor pure womanhood. A
knight had to agree to live by this code during
his quest in becoming a knight. The many
obligations of knighthood ...
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Beowulf Part 1 - 431 words
Beowulf Part 1 Beowulf Part I The Anglo-Saxons
were the members of the Germanic peoples who
invaded England. They were people of their own
time, language and culture. In the Anglo-Saxon
adventure filled tale of Beowulf, the heron
Beowulf was, at the time, considered the modern
day superman. His character exemplifies the
Germanic hero, and consequently the Anglo-Saxon
ideal: strong, fearless, bold, loyal, and stoic in
his acceptance of fate. With the absence of
courtesy, his important role in society and his
ideals of chivalry, Beowulf was the definition of
a hero in his own time. This novel develops the
theme that with honor towards chivalry and faith
in yourself, anything can be accomplishe ...
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Canterbury - 1,082 words
Canterbury Tales The Millers Tale, as opposed to
other tales that we have read so far, is filled
with double meanings that one must understand to
catch the crudeness and vulgarity that make the
tale what it is. The fact that The Monks Tale
should have followed The Knights Tale should tell
you something about the Miller. The Miller ended
up telling the second tale because he was drunk
and demanded to go after the knight or he would
leave the group (3132-33). The Reeve told the
Miller to shut his mouth (3144). The Miller did
not and proceeded along with his tale. The Miller
uses his tale to insult the Knight and the Reeve.
Although his story is identical in plot to that of
The Knights Tale, th ...
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Canterbury Takes And Society - 474 words
Canterbury Takes And Society The Canterbury Tales
presents a picture of the society in which the
author lived. The pilgrims tales reflect the
changing views held by society at that time. The
pilgrims must tell their tales to and from the
shrine. The criteria to choose the winner are that
the tale be instructive and amusing, "Tales of
best sentence and most solas (38)." The tale that
wins must teach a lesson and be entertaining at
the same time. The tale of "The Wife of Bath"
would have won the contest for these reasons. The
tale is entertaining and there is a lesson to be
learned in the end. The tale told by the Wife of
Bath is an entertaining tale. The entertainment
comes at the beginning o ...
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Canterbury Tales - 3,378 words
... singing abilities, Chanticleer decides to
sing for him. While singing the fox has a chance
to seize Chanticleer when he sings, because
whiling singing he closes his eyes like his father
did. As the fox uses more and more false flattery
towards Chanticleer, he is less sacred and
concentrates more on singing for Sir Russell Fox.
While singing the fox snatches Chanticleer and
runs away with him into the woods. Everyone panics
and chases after the fox to try and get back
Chanticleer. Another example of false flattery in
" The Nun's Priest's Tale" is when Chanticleer
uses it to free himself from danger. The fox takes
him into the forest so he can eat him. But before
that happens, Chanticleer ...
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Canterbury Tales - 1,037 words
Canterbury Tales Though the characters in the
Canterbury Tales are described vividly and often
comically, it is not necessarily true that these
characters are therefore stereotypes of The Middle
ages. The intricate visual descriptions and the
tales the characters tell help to direct the
reader in finding a more accurate and realistic
picture of the pilgrims, bringing into question
the theory that Chaucer was just collating
stereotypes from his time. The fact that there is
one representative for each of the chief classes
(under the higher nobility) would suggest that
this work is an attempt to provide a catalogue of
characters from the middle ages, and it can be
assumed from this that this de ...
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Canterbury Tales - 1,005 words
... ee, nor of his wif." (55-56) and the miller
pays heed to this warning, suppressing curiosity
of "Goddes privetee" as regards the flood and
trusting his wife so much as to leave her alone
and independent while he travels on his business.
This blind acceptance of 'Goddes' mysteries and
his wife's deceit leads to his metaphoric and
literal downfall when the tale comes to it's
climax, as the miller falls from the roof, and
again, literally and metaphorically waking up to
find his wife having had sex with another man. The
miller's wife Alison is another character that is
represented using this same process of creating a
stereotypical figure and then adding flaws and
perversions. Alison is pre ...
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Canterbury Tales By Chaucer - 1,819 words
Canterbury Tales By Chaucer By far Chaucer's most
popular work, although he might have preferred to
have been remembered by Troilus and Criseyde, the
Canterbury Tales was unfinished at his death. No
less than fifty-six surviving manuscripts contain,
or once contained, the full text. More than twenty
others contain some parts or an individual tale.
The work begins with a General Prologue in which
the narrator arrives at the Tabard Inn in
Southwark, and meets other pilgrims there, whom he
describes. In the second part of the General
Prologue the inn-keeper proposes that each of the
pilgrims tell stories along the road to
Canterbury, two each on the way there, two more on
the return journey, an ...
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Canterbury Tales By Chaucer - 1,862 words
... ink the wine, that he has poisoned, and also
die. Fragment VII The Shipman's Tale: a fabliau in
which a merchant's wife offers to sleep with a
monk if he gives her money; he borrows the money
from the merchant, sleeps with the wife, and later
tells the merchant (who asks for his money on
returning from a journey) that he has repaid it to
his wife! She says that she has spent it all, and
offers to repay her husband through time together
in bed. The tale seems written to be told by a
woman, perhaps it was originally given to the Wife
of Bath? The Prioress's Prologue and Tale: a
religious tale, in complete contrast to the
Shipman's. A little boy is killed by wicked Jews
because he sings a h ...
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Canterbury Tales By Chaucer And Medieval - 1,774 words
Canterbury Tales By Chaucer And Medieval In the
Prologue to the Caterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
is almost always polite and respectful when he
points out the foibles and weaknesses of people.
He is able to do this by using genial satire,
which is basically having a pleasant or friendly
disposition while ridiculing human vices and
follies. Chaucer also finds characteristics in the
pilgrims that he admires. This is evident in the
peaceful way he describes their attributes. The
Nun is one of the pilgrims in which Chaucer uses
genial satire to describe. He defines her as a
woman who is, "Pleasant and friendly in her ways,
and straining/ To counterfeit a courtly kind of
grace" ( l.l. 136-137). ...
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Canterbury Tales By Reeve - 1,504 words
Canterbury Tales By Reeve Such comments as, "I
pray to God his nekke mote to-breke" quickly
reveal that the verbal game of "quite" involves
much more than a free meal to the Reeve in "The
Canterbury Tales" (I 3918). This overreaction,
which grabs the attention of the audience and
gives it pause, is characteristic of the Reeves
ostensibly odd behavior, being given to morose
speeches followed by violent outbursts, all the
while harboring spiteful desires. Anger typifies
the Reeves dialogue and his tale, which begs the
question why. It appears to be a reaction to the
Millers insults, but they are not extreme enough
to provoke such resentment. He seem-ingly has no
hesitation in articulating his ...
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Canterbury Tales Wife Of Bath - 808 words
Canterbury Tales - Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath
is a very envious women, who desires only a few
simple things in life.She likes to make mirror
images of herself, through her stories, which in
some way reflects the person who she really is.
This is all proven through the many ways she
portrays her characters. The Wife of Bath desires
the obvious in life, but what she most desires
above all is being more powerful than her man, her
spouse, and her lover.In a relationship, she
wishes to be the dominant of the two.The one who
has the last say.The one who is in control and
decides all of the matters in the
relationship.This is shown in her tale when the
knight fulfills his task to her."'...a wome ...
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